From behind the bar

Planning notes from a crew that presses for a living

Not content-calendar filler — these are the write-ups we send planners when they ask the same smart question for the third time. Steal freely.

Design strategy

How to build a t‑shirt bar design menu guests actually love

Six slots, one wildcard, zero committee designs: the menu formula we have refined across hundreds of events, with the sales data that shaped it.

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Campus

Running a t‑shirt bar during welcome week without losing the quad

Timing against the campus schedule, staffing the surge, and the signage trick that doubles throughput when 2,000 freshmen show up at once.

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Budget math

T‑shirt bar vs. a box of pre-printed shirts: the honest math

When pressing live wins, when the box wins, and the waste line item nobody puts in the pre-print spreadsheet.

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